Kurt Mackey

And that number typically hovers around 10 to 15%. Okay. And so one of the first things that came to mind, what are the implications of 80% of developers being happy, right? If only 15% of them are actually going to leave the company, right? And

And that number typically hovers around 10 to 15%. Okay. And so one of the first things that came to mind, what are the implications of 80% of developers being happy, right? If only 15% of them are actually going to leave the company, right? And

That amounts to a lot of unhappy employees who are not doing their best work, who are probably not clocking in the 40, 50 hours that we're hoping for, who may be phoning it in a little bit. So that was interesting to me, just reading that headline.

That amounts to a lot of unhappy employees who are not doing their best work, who are probably not clocking in the 40, 50 hours that we're hoping for, who may be phoning it in a little bit. So that was interesting to me, just reading that headline.

It's interesting. Yeah, the question was, how satisfied are you in your current professional developer role?

It's interesting. Yeah, the question was, how satisfied are you in your current professional developer role?

And the options were not happy at work, complacent at work, and happy at work. So actually, of that 80% who are reported to be unhappy, 47% are complacent. So they didn't say they were unhappy. They said, meh.

And the options were not happy at work, complacent at work, and happy at work. So actually, of that 80% who are reported to be unhappy, 47% are complacent. So they didn't say they were unhappy. They said, meh.

can do what we love all the time and it feels like i would do this if i wasn't getting paid for it like that's not the normal and so just being kind of meh with your job is it could be worse right maybe worse what i think is really interesting is the why right so so why are developers satisfied or unsatisfied in their in their jobs and i think

can do what we love all the time and it feels like i would do this if i wasn't getting paid for it like that's not the normal and so just being kind of meh with your job is it could be worse right maybe worse what i think is really interesting is the why right so so why are developers satisfied or unsatisfied in their in their jobs and i think

The first images that pop into our minds might be pay or managers or layoffs or AI. But if I'm reading this correctly, the top contributors to satisfaction are actually the developer experience or technical data, right? The tooling, the complexity of the systems and the code base. Am I reading that correctly? Is that how you guys read it?

The first images that pop into our minds might be pay or managers or layoffs or AI. But if I'm reading this correctly, the top contributors to satisfaction are actually the developer experience or technical data, right? The tooling, the complexity of the systems and the code base. Am I reading that correctly? Is that how you guys read it?

Maybe. Yeah. Two decades of move fast, break things, hire a lot of people, churn a lot of people. Churn. Reorg many times. And now everything's a mess.

Maybe. Yeah. Two decades of move fast, break things, hire a lot of people, churn a lot of people. Churn. Reorg many times. And now everything's a mess.

Yeah. Yeah. So we we're focused on measuring the developer experience. A lot of the things listed here, you know, difficulty of understanding code or developer environments, CICD. strategy on the team, a lot of these things are aspects of the developer experience we measure for lots of different companies. And then we correlate the two.

Yeah. Yeah. So we we're focused on measuring the developer experience. A lot of the things listed here, you know, difficulty of understanding code or developer environments, CICD. strategy on the team, a lot of these things are aspects of the developer experience we measure for lots of different companies. And then we correlate the two.

So we correlate these different aspects or facets of developer experience against who's at risk of leaving and who's actually left. And our data actually aligns quite a bit with what I'm looking at here with the SEC overflow report. Yeah, the difficulty of doing work as a developer seems to be the preeminent cause of regrettable attrition for companies.

So we correlate these different aspects or facets of developer experience against who's at risk of leaving and who's actually left. And our data actually aligns quite a bit with what I'm looking at here with the SEC overflow report. Yeah, the difficulty of doing work as a developer seems to be the preeminent cause of regrettable attrition for companies.

Not pay, not liking your manager, not stock compensation. It often is just the difficulty of actually doing work.

Not pay, not liking your manager, not stock compensation. It often is just the difficulty of actually doing work.